San Diego News

San Diego Union-Tribune

• USD to show video feed from climate conference

  San Diego Union-Tribune – 59 mins ago  

  The University of San Diego will host a forum Thursday that features a live discussion with the state’s delegates to the global warming conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Full Story »

• Man killed in fiery crash identified

  San Diego Union-Tribune – 1 hr 1 min ago  

  A man killed in a fiery crash in Torrey Pines caused by a suspected drunken driver was identified Tuesday as Jared Franklin Purton, 33, of Pacific Beach. Full Story »

• Drug store robber demands OxyContin

  San Diego Union-Tribune – 1 hr 45 mins ago  

  A man armed with a knife robbed a Hillcrest drug store early Tuesday morning Full Story »

• Panel rips S.D. budget’s ‘gimmicks’

  San Diego Union-Tribune – Tue Dec 15, 3:57 am ET  

  If city leaders are unwilling or unable to fix San Diego’s ongoing budget deficit, then voters will have to do it for them by adopting ballot measures to force the city to fire workers or drastically cut services, according to a report being released today by a citizen task force. Full Story »

• Man convicted in abduction, torture of senior

  San Diego Union-Tribune – Tue Dec 15, 3:57 am ET  

  It took less than three hours yesterday for an El Cajon jury to convict Jeffrey Edward Nelson of attempted murder and torture for kidnapping 76-year-old Natalie “Sandy” Herbst-Vinge one year ago. Full Story »

Channel 8 San Diego

• Jurors deadlocked in teacher sex trial

  Channel 8 San Diego – 1 hr 44 mins ago  

  Jurors appear to be deadlocked in the trial of a teacher accused of having sex with two former students. Full Story »

• Alleged drunk driver leads police on chase in Mira Mesa

  Channel 8 San Diego – 1 hr 59 mins ago  

  A suspected drunk driver is behind bars Tuesday after leading police on a chase in Mira Mesa. Full Story »

• 4 family members found dead in upscale Calif. home

  Channel 8 San Diego – 1 hr 59 mins ago  

  Authorities say a woman has killed herself and three other family members, including two young children, in what may have started as a child custody dispute in an upscale, gated Southern California community. Full Story »

• College students return after semester-at-sea journey

  Channel 8 San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 9:28 pm ET  

  Hundreds of college students are back on solid ground after a semester-long journey around the world. Full Story »

• Former Helix administrator pleads not guilty to charges

  Channel 8 San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 9:13 pm ET  

  A Helix High School assistant principal, who was fired for helping a student having troubles at home catch a bus to Oregon to visit a relative, pleaded not guilty today to misdemeanor charges. Full Story »

North County Times

• REGION: Driver arrested after pursuit

  North County Times – 37 mins ago  

  A motorist sought for speeding led authorities on a 20-minutechase through the North County today before being arrested, theCalifornia Highway Patrol reported. Full Story »

• ESCONDIDO: Residents say storage facility would destroy rural neighborhood

  North County Times – Tue Dec 15, 2:05 am ET  

  A group of nearly 80 residents argued Monday night that a largestorage facility proposed for near Escondido's southeastern edgewould be the first step toward transforming the area from a ruralhaven into an intense commercial corridor. Full Story »

• San Diego budget plan jeopardizes city jobs

  North County Times – Tue Dec 15, 1:45 am ET  

  SAN DIEGO --- About 200 city workers will lose their jobs andmunicipal services will be trimmed as part of an 18-month budgetplan that the City Council finalized Monday in an effort to closeSan Diego's $179 million budget deficit. Full Story »

• Assistant prinicipal pleads not guilty to child endangerment

  North County Times – Tue Dec 15, 1:45 am ET  

  EL CAJON ---- A Helix High School assistant principal, who wasfired for helping a student having troubles at home catch a bus toOregon to visit a relative, pleaded not guilty Monday tomisdemeanor charges. Full Story »

• House fire displaces family of four

  North County Times – Tue Dec 15, 1:45 am ET  

  SKYLINE ---- A fire of unknown origin damaged an East Countyhome Monday, displacing a family of four who were in the process ofmoving in. Full Story »

San Diego 6

• Video: High Speed Chase

  San Diego 6 – 21 mins ago  

  Police chase a driver on three freeways who wouldn't stop for a speeding violation. 12/15/09 Full Story »

• Video: Underage Drinking Concerns

  San Diego 6 – 36 mins ago  

  A flurry of drunk driving deaths involving young people has renewed a call for parents to reach out to their children. 12/14/09 Full Story »

• North County Police Chase

  San Diego 6 – 1 hr 21 mins ago  

  Driver wanted for speeding stopped after 20 minute chase. Full Story »

• Grandmother's Attacker Found Guilty

  San Diego 6 – Tue Dec 15, 2:50 am ET  

  Jeffrey Edward Nelson convicted of attempted murder and torture. Full Story »

• Video: Vinge Verdict

  San Diego 6 – Tue Dec 15, 2:05 am ET  

  Guilty on all counts for the man who tied up and beat 76-year-old Sandy Vinge. Full Story »

NBC San Diego

• Learning More About the Pacific Gyre

  NBC San Diego – 1 hr 22 mins ago  

  More than 100 people gathered at the Birch Aquarium to hear researchers tell the tale of the so-called "Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Full Story »

• City Council Approves Budget

  NBC San Diego – 1 hr 52 mins ago  

  San Diego's city council approves the budget, costing workers jobs. Full Story »

• Minutemen Feel Betrayed By Attorneys

  NBC San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 8:35 am ET  

  The anti-immigration group wants their $100,000. Full Story »

• Teens Fight Back After Fatal DUIs

  NBC San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 8:20 am ET  

  Spate of deaths prompts students to raise awareness of alcohol's dangers. Full Story »

• Victim Relives Horrifying Hatchet Attack

  NBC San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 7:23 pm ET  

  A young man who was blinded in a brutal assault takes the stand. Full Story »

KGTV San Diego

• Man To Be Sentenced For Workplace Threat, Guns In Car

  KGTV San Diego – 1 hr 10 mins ago  

  An ex-Marine with post-traumatic stress disorder is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to threatening supervisors who fired him and choking a co-worker who was also his live-in girlfriend. Full Story »

• Driver On Meth To Be Sentenced In Woman's Death

  KGTV San Diego – 1 hr 25 mins ago  

  A man who admitted driving his van onto a Sabre Springs sidewalk while high on methamphetamine and killing a woman who was taking her morning walk is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday. Full Story »

• Poway Man To Be Sentenced For Fatal DUI Crash

  KGTV San Diego – 1 hr 25 mins ago  

  A Poway man is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in a 2007 crash that killed a woman riding in the back of an SUV near University Town Center. Full Story »

• Police: 2 Women, 2 Girls Dead In San Clemente Murder-Suicide

  KGTV San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 8:17 am ET  

  Orange County authorities say a woman has killed herself and three other family members, including two young children, in what may have started as a child custody dispute. Full Story »

• OxyContin Target Of Hillcrest Pharmacy Robbery

  KGTV San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 8:17 am ET  

  A knife-wielding man jumped over the counter of a Hillcrest pharmacy Tuesday and snatched a powerful and highly addictive prescription painkiller, but no one was hurt, police said. Full Story »

FOX 5 San Diego

• Busy getting Christmas packages out.

  FOX 5 San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 2:38 am ET  

  The clock is ticking. There's just over a week left before Christmas, and even less time to get your packages in the mail if you want them to arrive in time on December 25th. Full Story »

• 20 hours after it started, a fire in Midway finally extinguished

  FOX 5 San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 1:38 am ET  

  Twenty hours after it started, a fire in the Midway district was finally put out for good. Firefighters were called to the blaze at the corner of Rosecrans Street and Midway Drive at 9:30 p.m. Sunday. The building housed the Déjà Vu Showgirls corporate offices as well Blowout Video Rental. Fire officials say the fire started in the attic of the two story building but they don't know how it ... Full Story »

• Border Patrol Agent faces trial for hatchett attack

  FOX 5 San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 12:53 am ET  

  A U.S. Border Patrol agent was ordered Monday to stand trial on attempted murder charges for allegedly wielding a hatchet on a young man and his girlfriend in a bungled plan aimed at the defendant's estranged wife. Full Story »

• Man who pretended to be teen convicted of child molestation

  FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 10:53 pm ET  

  A sex offender who pretended to be a teenager and molested four young boys was convicted Monday of multiple counts of child molestation. Full Story »

• Graduation rates are at the highest level at San Diego State University

  FOX 5 San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 7:10 pm ET  

  Two-thirds of the full-time students who started at San Diego State University as freshman in 2003 graduated in six years or less, the highest graduation rate in the university's history, it was announced today. Full Story »

KUSI News San Diego

• Nestor teen fights off attempted kidnapper

  KUSI News San Diego – Tue Dec 15, 1:31 am ET  

  Students at a South Bay High School are being warned about two suspects who have tried to kidnap a couple of teenagers with in the past month. The suspects are targeting female students from southwest high school. Full Story »

• San Diego schools deal with steep budget cuts

  KUSI News San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 10:17 pm ET  

  Parents, teachers and school board members are putting their heads together to solve the latest budget crisis. Full Story »

• Holiday shopping safety tips

  KUSI News San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 10:16 pm ET  

  "Tis the season for giving...and...taking. This is the time of year when it's easy to be a victim whether it's the theft of Christmas gifts, your wallet at the mall or at your computer, when your identity is stolen. Full Story »

• BFF brings some joy to women's shelter

  KUSI News San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 2:16 pm ET  

  Christmas can be very hard for the homeless and for those who are abused, especially if they are women. But two organizations teamed up Sunday in the North County to bring some of those women a brighter future. Full Story »

• Flurry of police pursuits on San Diego roadways

  KUSI News San Diego – Mon Dec 14, 1:31 pm ET  

  Sunday was a dangerous day on San Diego roadways, with three different suspects refusing to pull over for police resulting in high speed pursuits, officer-involved shootings and snarled freeways. Full Story »

Voice of San Diego

• In Front of You in Line at the Cafe: The Grinch

  Voice of San Diego – 20 mins ago  

  Our media partners at Cox Channel 4 spent a morning with Jeff Skowron, the guy behind the Grinch at the Old Globe whom we featured last week in People at Work. Full Story »

• Dueling Job Data, Revisited

  Voice of San Diego – 20 mins ago  

  Last month I wrote about some mixed signals in the data from two different job surveys. While the rate of job loss at San Diego companies was improving, the rate of loss among San Diego's residents -- regardless of where they are employed -- was hitting new highs. The graph accompanying this article shows that this gap widened further in October. Full Story »

• Bright and Early

  Voice of San Diego – 1 hr 5 mins ago  

  I'm the People's Reporter today -- so boss me around all you like. But first -- the newsblitz! Full Story »

• One Stab at Fixing the Problem

  Voice of San Diego – 1 hr 5 mins ago  

  Jack Scott was stunned that principals in ailing schools would be forced to hire teachers they didn't want. Three years ago, when he was a state senator, he crafted a new law to lessen it: Principals in struggling schools couldn't be forced to take teachers who chose to transfer in. Schools could choose any teacher who wanted to transfer there after April. Full Story »

• Morning Report: How Poor Schools Lure -- and Keep -- Teachers

  Voice of San Diego – 1 hr 35 mins ago  

  Balboa Elementary School is the kind of school that you'd assume would have trouble keeping teachers on board. Its students are so poor that teachers sometimes take their laundry home for them. Full Story »

San Diego Reader

• Can't Stop Not Knowing

  San Diego Reader – Mon Dec 14, 10:16 pm ET  

  Great band name. Great CD title. Great Consequence of Sound report of TNL shut down by the NYPD for rocking so loud it was disrupting the concentration of neighboring CMJ Festival performers (if John Cage weren't dead, I might be concerned). Full Story »

• How Great Is Your Love

  San Diego Reader – Mon Dec 14, 9:31 pm ET  

  Sean Ardoin, heir to the Zydeco throne of Bois Sec Ardoin, calls this the first Christian Zydeco album, and indeed (at least) I can't think of any others. As one of the several rappers dropping knowledge throughout remarks, a Christian Zydeco album isn't what everyone's expecting. Full Story »

• Moz and the Men in Black

  San Diego Reader – Mon Dec 14, 9:31 pm ET  

  Morrissey was in a fine mood at Copley Symphony Hall. After a few songs, he acknowledged to the crowd of over 2000 that his last two San Diego performances were "a bit rough." (Morrissey walked off the stage at his last San Diego show due to sound problems and a vicious security squad.) Full Story »

• Win Inglourious Basterds on DVD!

  San Diego Reader – Mon Dec 14, 1:01 pm ET  

  In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. Full Story »

• Phil's Fish Market, Moss Landing, California

  San Diego Reader – Sun Dec 13, 8:16 pm ET  

  Catch this! If you’re on a constant search like I am for tasty cioppino, head to Phil’s Fish Market in Moss Landing, Monterey County, for delicious seafood using old-world family recipes. Full Story »